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Are Image Editing Apps Damaging Our Mental Health?

Leading mental health experts in the UK are calling for face-editing apps to be age-restricted. ...

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09.51 1 Oct 2020


Are Image Editing Apps Damaging Our Mental Health?


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Leading mental health experts in the UK are calling for face-editing apps to be age-restricted.  Professor Heather Widdows from the Professor of Philosophy in the University of Birmingham was part of a team at the Mental Health Foundation in the UK who have done research in the area – she told Newstalk Breakfast that the apps have a significant impact on young people.

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